"My very educated mother just served us nine pickles" (1966)

[Benjamin Zimmer]

On 8/30/06, Bapopik at aol.com <Bapopik at aol.com> wrote:
>
> 14 March 1934, Winnipeg Free Press, pg. 8:
> Do you find it hard to remember the order of the planets in their distance
> from the sun?

Thanks for this one, Barry. I've added it as an update to this
Language Log post:

http://itre.cis.upenn.edu/~myl/languagelog/archives/003506.html


--Ben Zimmer

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